hello.c

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The simplest possible program and spreadsheet. This is a good place to start to see if the libxlsxwriter library is installed and working correctly.

/*
 * Example of writing some data to a simple Excel file using libxlsxwriter.
 *
 * Copyright 2014-2026, John McNamara, jmcnamara@cpan.org
 *
 */

#include "xlsxwriter.h"

int main() {

    lxw_workbook  *workbook  = workbook_new("hello_world.xlsx");
    lxw_worksheet *worksheet = workbook_add_worksheet(workbook, NULL);

    worksheet_write_string(worksheet, 0, 0, "Hello", NULL);
    worksheet_write_number(worksheet, 1, 0, 123, NULL);

    workbook_close(workbook);

    return 0;
}